Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 77 109
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 +21
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 75 45 29
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.68% 2.18% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 2.45% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 23 17
10th Percentile £335 £469 £524
25th Percentile £480 £506 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £620 £645
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% -3.88% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £670
90th Percentile £676 £738 £686
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £30.40 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +71.56% -62.69%
75th Percentile - - £34.61
90th Percentile - - £44.74
England median hourly rate £70.00 £28.70 £20.00
% change year-on-year +143.90% +43.50% -68.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,415 1,836 2,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.34% 89.00% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 1,113 1,579
10th Percentile £215 £275 £304
25th Percentile £358 £385 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 106 232
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.07 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.93 £23.11 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.23% +21.69% -30.67%
75th Percentile £63.50 £55.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.30 £79.04 £55.01
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the North West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -2 47 £577 +2.49% 32
Cheshire -20 14 £435 -30.40% 5
Cumbria +15 8 £625 -0.79% 2
Lancashire -16 2 £300 - 4
Merseyside -19 2 - - 1
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.33%) Apache
1 1 (1.33%) CICS
1 1 (1.33%) IIS
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.33%) SharePoint 2013
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.33%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 23 (30.67%) AWS
2 19 (25.33%) Azure
3 11 (14.67%) GCP
4 8 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.67%) GitHub
7 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.67%) Serverless
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.33%) Dataform
8 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.33%) ShareGate
8 1 (1.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) Firewall
2 8 (10.67%) WAN
3 6 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (8.00%) MPLS
3 6 (8.00%) VLAN
3 6 (8.00%) Wireless
4 5 (6.67%) SAN
4 5 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 5 (6.67%) VPN
5 4 (5.33%) 802.11
5 4 (5.33%) BGP
5 4 (5.33%) EIGRP
5 4 (5.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (5.33%) IPsec
5 4 (5.33%) LAN
5 4 (5.33%) OSPF
5 4 (5.33%) VXLAN
6 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.67%) Internet
7 2 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Power BI
2 2 (2.67%) Big Data
2 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.33%) DataStage
3 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.33%) Metadata
3 1 (1.33%) MySQL
3 1 (1.33%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Git
2 2 (2.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.33%) gulp
3 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.33%) JUnit
3 1 (1.33%) Mockito
3 1 (1.33%) Yeoman
General
1 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Finance
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Advertising
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Automotive
7 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Military
7 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (42.67%) Architect
2 18 (24.00%) Lead
3 17 (22.67%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (12.00%) SailPoint Architect
5 8 (10.67%) Technical Architect
6 6 (8.00%) Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior
7 5 (6.67%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Lead Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.67%) Data Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Java Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Java Developer
10 2 (2.67%) Java Technical Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (2.67%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) SailPoint
2 6 (8.00%) 802.1X
2 6 (8.00%) RESTful
2 6 (8.00%) Spring
2 6 (8.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.67%) React
3 5 (6.67%) REST
4 4 (5.33%) .NET
4 4 (5.33%) Kafka
5 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.00%) Web Services
6 2 (2.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.67%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.67%) Playwright
6 2 (2.67%) pytest
6 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.33%) PySpark
7 1 (1.33%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.33%) e-Learning
4 4 (5.33%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.33%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) BYOD
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) AIX
2 1 (1.33%) Solaris
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) Agile
2 19 (25.33%) CI/CD
3 18 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (24.00%) Mentoring
4 17 (22.67%) DevOps
5 14 (18.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (16.00%) Microservices
7 11 (14.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 10 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (12.00%) Containerisation
9 9 (12.00%) Design Patterns
9 9 (12.00%) ITIL
9 9 (12.00%) Observability
9 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (10.67%) Coaching
10 8 (10.67%) GAP Analysis
10 8 (10.67%) IT Strategy
10 8 (10.67%) Migration
11 7 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) Java
1 11 (14.67%) Python
2 4 (5.33%) Ruby
2 4 (5.33%) SQL
2 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.67%) C#
5 1 (1.33%) COBOL
5 1 (1.33%) Go
5 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.33%) Degree
4 4 (5.33%) IBM Certification
4 4 (5.33%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.67%) CCNA
6 2 (2.67%) CCNP
6 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.33%) CCIE
7 1 (1.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) SLA
2 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.33%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) Terraform
2 5 (6.67%) Ansible
2 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.67%) Grafana
3 2 (2.67%) IBM BigFix
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Google
2 7 (9.33%) IBM
2 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.00%) Cisco
4 4 (5.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.67%) Aruba
5 2 (2.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.67%) Ekahau
5 2 (2.67%) Meraki
5 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) Capita
6 1 (1.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.33%) McAfee
6 1 (1.33%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) VMware